Charting the future of cancer health disparities research: A position statement from the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Cancer Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the National Cancer Institute.
Autor: | Polite, Blase N., Adams‐Campbell, Lucile L., Brawley, Otis W., Bickell, Nina, Carethers, John M., Flowers, Christopher R., Foti, Margaret, Gomez, Scarlett Lin, Griggs, Jennifer J., Lathan, Christopher S., Li, Christopher I., Lichtenfeld, J. Leonard, McCaskill‐Stevens, Worta, Paskett, Electra D., Adams-Campbell, Lucile L, McCaskill-Stevens, Worta |
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CANCER
CANCER -- Law & legislation TUMOR diagnosis TUMOR prevention STATISTICS on Black people STATISTICS on minorities CLINICAL trials HEALTH services accessibility HEALTH status indicators MEDICAID MEDICAL research ONCOLOGY TUMORS WHITE people DISEASE incidence PATIENT Protection & Affordable Care Act |
Zdroj: | CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians; Sep/Oct2017, Vol. 67 Issue 5, p353-361, 9p |
Abstrakt: | The article discusses cancer health disparities among Americans and mentions about research conducted by American Association for Cancer Research, the American Cancer Society, and National Cancer Institute regarding same. Topics include higher rates of death among black Americans due to cancers; adverse differences in cancer incidence, cancer prevalence and cancer mortality among U.S. population; and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program created by National Cancer Act of 1971. |
Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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